William Saroyan Short Quotes

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You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

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The business of polishing my shoes satisfies my soul.

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Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.

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He knew the truth and was looking for something better.

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How did money ever happen? What's it mean? What's it for?

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Everything begins with inhale and exhale, and never ends.

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The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

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I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.

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Don't forget that some things count more than other things.

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All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

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Nothing has ever been more sure-fire than truth and integrity.

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It is the heart of man that I am trying to imply in this work.

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I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.

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I believe in my work and am eager for others to know about it.

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The purpose of my life is to put off dying as long as possible.

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Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

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All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.

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Art comes from the world, belongs to it, can never escape from it.

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If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.

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I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

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If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.

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The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

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At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them.

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I began to visit Armenia as soon as I had earned the necessary money.

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You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.

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Each person belongs to the environment, in his own person, as himself.

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There was a touch of anxiety in the whole human race about its future.

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It seemed to me that I had no right to burn a book I hadn't even read.

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My superficial manners stink and my profound manners are almost as bad.

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What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

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